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ABOUT THE PLAY
Dark comedy. 5 males (but somewhat flexible). 10 minutes. Unit
or suggested set. Appropriate for high school and up.
While the cast was written for 5 males, it's
also possible to cross-cast roles as necessary (but women would
have to play men, except in the case of the Pizza Deliver Guy,
who could easily be a Pizza Delivery Girl). Premiered at The Haverford
School.
SYNOPSIS
Terry, Fritz, McHale and Jonah, members of an apocalyptic cult,
have sold off most of their earthly goods, sent the women and
children to Cleveland and are holed up in their compound to await
the end of the world. According to their calculations, it's coming
in just a few minutes. They pass the time trying to figure out
how it all might end: floods, nuclear war, etc. McHale guesses
"chaos," a suggestion pooh-poohed by the others as vague,
wishy-washy. They stop the game on that sour note and wait in
silence. At the expected moment of doom, there's a knock at the
door. A Pizza Delivery Guy arrives with a large pepperoni pizza.
The cultists mistake it for the apocalypse and begin to quarrel
over it. As they argue, the Pizza Delivery Guy slips out with
the box, and mistrust and growing chaos send the cultists careening
toward their own personal apocalypse.
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